 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...comer. The welcome ever smiles, Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity,...is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. Then marvel not, thou great and complete man, That all... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...sighing. Let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity,...is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'erdusted. The present eye praises the present object. (3.3.165-80) In a similar vein, Agamemnon dismisses past... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...underpins the entire play: O let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love,...are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. (3.3.163-8) It is characteristic of the deflationary mode of this play that the great event to which... | |
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O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin... 
